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History of Paint Ball |
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The idea of paintball started back in 1976 or 1977, when a couple of Nam veterans has a barbequed party. They came up with idea of a game. A game based of stalking. Like hide and seek. The purpose of the game they formed was excitement. The first game, played 1981, in New Hampshire USA, was a so called Capture the flag-game, on a 125 acre played field. Today the fields are about 100x50m. The players needed maps to find the flag stations, it must have been like a bit of land navigation with paintshooting opponents. |
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The first paintmarkets, Nelspot 007, weren't actually made for paintball games. It was airguns shooting paintepellets for marketing trees and cows, but they adopted it, and that was the start of the great sport we today call Paintball. The sport is what some call "The fastest growing sport on Earth", and I agree. An English Paintball magazine recently reported that the sports gets about 1000 new players/month, only in English. In the beginning there was only Stock Paintball pistols with 10 round mags. Today we have full/semi automatic markets with 300 rounds electrically powered bulkloaders. The sport really developed. The face protection in "the old days" where construction safety glasses. Today we have full face masks with built in fans, and many other fancy extras. |
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thing that many react to when they see Paintball for their first time
are the camouflage suits. For most people, camouflage is associated with
the military, so they think that Paintball is some kind of combat-wargame.
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